Quality of Life in Patients with Intermittent Claudication Using The World Health Organisation (WHO) Questionnaire
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Patients with Intermittent Claudication
Increased blood viscosity has been shown to be an important factor in reducing blood flow in a review and analysis of the history, clinical findings, and haemodynamic, rheological, radiological, and biochemical measurements in 126 patients with intermittent claudication. In some patients increased viscosity seemed to be the determining cause of claudication. A raised plasma fibrinogen was the m...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1078-5884
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.2001.1305